Foodstuffs having improved taste quality

Abstract

A foodstuff having improved taste quality comprising a taste-improving amount of a pepper extract, a piperine-containing fraction of pepper or one or more piperines.

What is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States is: 
     
       1. A method for improving the aftertaste of a foodstuff sweetened with aspartame, which comprises: adding to said foodstuff a pepper extract, a piperine-containing fraction, or at least one piperine, in an amount in which the hot taste thereof is not appreciable, said amount being 10 ppb to 100 ppb, calculated based on the piperine content, and said foodstuff is sweetened with aspartame.   
     
     
       2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said pepper extract is an extract of pepper with water, an alcohol, or carbon dioxide in a liquid or supercritical state.